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The AAUP has published some guidelines for understanding what is and is not protected classroom speech when addressing political issues and student comments.

The author discusses a report on the value of having students evaluate their peer's presentations in the political science classroom. Being required to evaluate their peer's presentations using the same criteria as the instructor uses, students report a greater understanding of the expectations for the presentations and gain more knowledge from the content of those presentations than they would have otherwise.

This was written to address the pivot to remote learning, but the advice applies to any crisis, including the current political situation. There's value in your lengthy, developed teaching philosophy, and there's value stating in your principles in ways which are easy to recall under pressure.

A collection of guides, articles, web pages, and videos with strategies for teaching during difficult local, national, and international events.

How can library research assignments help students learn to guard against accepting only the information which confirms their beliefs?

Xavier University of Louisiana uses the "deliberative discussion" framework in a public speaking class to facilitate community conversations about current political issues.